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Absolutely - she copes well with some very weak source material.

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The author!

Any additional comments?

Sorry to savage this - I think that there is a good book in there but I didn't get the impression the author wanted to get her fingernails dirty. Far too much reliance on professors and managers of five star hotels!

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Fantastic way to learn a new language: listening to someone narrating her/his experience with the idiom while living in the country where it's spoken. Best of both worlds; learning the language while hearing witty observations on local customs and history.

What was one of the most memorable moments of La Bella Lingua?

Impossible to pick a memorable moment, since the author trully loves La Bella Lingua and the Italian people.

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Suzanne Toren's narration adds a lot to the book, with her perfect Italian pronunciation.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

As we are commenting about the wonderful Italians, it's impossible not to have an emotional reaction to the engaging narration.

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Midwicket

30-12-18

Wow! This is one of the Top 10 books I've read!

"Read"?! Yes, "read"! (wait for it). I used a credit to purchase this book once I found out that I was going to spend a few weeks in Italy with my family. I've always wanted to learn how to speak Italian and the chance to spend time there, and not necessarily follow the much traveled path of the hordes of other tourists, although we did do the 'touristy-things", we kept it to a local, off the beaten track, sort of trip. I listened to the book over a weekend and decided to get the book and listen to it again while reading along listening to the Audible audiobook. And what a huge difference that made to me to start understanding the culture and ever-so-expressive language! It was so entertaining to follow Professor Hales on her travels. Prof. Hales writes incredible well and one can definitely sense her passion for the language, culture and everything yo do with Italy, actually. Ms. Toren did an amazing job with her reading. her pronounciations were perfect, I was told by native speakers and her voice provided the perfect dramatization that Prof. Hales intended (from what I heard and expected, anyway).

If one is interested in anything Italian, for a trip or something more long term, or of you are simply a romantic, this is for you! you won't be disappointed! I wasn't!

So...get started!

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S. Gharda-ward MD

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Not only language

This book is full of history and culture as well as a complete investigation of the language in history, film and dialects.

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I loved it!!

I enjoyed this books that I finished in less than 4 days. It is very informative and full of interesting and funny stories!!

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Anonymous

24-04-19

Extremely enaging

An excellent book for any lover of the Italian language, interwoven with history and anecdotes to give great context and to make the language and all of its beauty and eccentricties come alive. Excellent and well measured performance as well.

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Gizelle

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My new best friend

I ADORED every minute of this book! I feel like I have a new best friend - who is witty, well spoken and well travelled, likes the same things I do, holds secrets well, is polite but can tell a hilariously naughty story as needed. I learned about the origins of the language, some history, literary figures, things I slept through in school... this is a fun, informative, book about Italy, Italians, and ITALIAN. GET IT on Audible, and get to know your new best friend - you will love her!

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Benoch

28-10-18

Terribly annoying, waste of time.

This is all cliche, no substance. Beyond the terrible story, which is basically a rich woman bragging about her many vacations in Italy, it is read in a pretentious manner. The narrator tries to switch to an Italian accent whenever she reads a name (like Dante, for example) and it's incredibly annoying. I couldn't recommend it for anyone. On one hand, it's too much information if you know nothing about Italy and, on the other hand, it's not particularly full of new information if you are familiar with Italy.